Three weeks brings an extra $40,000 for life

April 28th, 2009 at 07:47am Wally Haas

Kurt Granberg was the head of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for three weeks. Despite being there barely long enough to warm a chair, the Pension Review Board voted 3-2 to allow him to earn a pension based on his DNR salary rather than his legislative salary.

Granberg will get a $111,716 annual pension. He would have still made a heft $73,000 if the board had voted the other way.

The vote was along party lines, with Democrats saying OK. Three members of the eight member board were missing.

Read the full story in the Mount Vernon Register-News HERE.

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